Folded paper-board filler for boxes



S. MORRISON.

FOLDED PAPER BOARD FILLER ron 30x55.-

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S. MORRISON.

FOLDED PAPER BOARD FILLER FOR BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I, I919.

- Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

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SEYMOUR IVIORRISON. OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

FOLDED PAPER-BOARD FILLER FOR BOXES.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR MonnrsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and useful Folded Paper-Board Filler for Boxes, of which the following is the specification.

The object of this invention is to form a ller for i11strumentholding boxes out of paper board that will be light, inexpensive, durable, and well-shaped for the purpose. 7 The manner of cutting, scoring, and folding the paper board is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l. is a top plan view of a boX, without a cover, furnished with my improved filler.

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of same on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view, in the flat, of a paper board, cut and scored, from which a lower base member is folded.

Fig. 4: is a section on the line 44c of Fig. 3, of the base member after it is folded.

Fig. 5 is a cut and scored paper blank from which a superimposed filler-member is formed.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of same when nearly folded to form the superimposed filler-member.

Fig. 7 is an end elevation of the two fillermembers assembled for use.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawings.

Variation in form and proportions will be made to suit the shape and size of the instrument for holding which the filler is to be used, and the number of separate pockets will also vary with the number of instru m nts to be packed in a single boX. In the drawings, a filler'is shown to hold three instruments and to be used in a. boX' 8. The shape of the instrument requires a deep recess A, extending to the bottom of the b0 at one end of'the latter; a raised table B, as for an instrument with a long thin neck; a recess (3 of same depth as A but narrower; and a table D on which the major length or body of the instrument is supported. This much, illustrated in detail in Figs. 8 and 4, is formed from a single paper board, in a manner presently to be described in detail; but there is nothing to separate the three instruments from each other and to hold them snugly to prevent breakage,- which is liable if they are made at glass.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

Application filed December 1, 1919. Serial No. 341,804.

Also the body of the filler, if made out of a paper board thin enough to be readily cut and formed into shape, is not sufficiently strong and rigid.

I therefore provide a second filler-member illustrated in detail in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, to supplement the first, and to supply the desired additional'features.

Describing now the first filler-member, Fig 3 illustrates the blank cut and scored, ready to be folded to form for use. The Width of the blank opposite the table B, is wider than that which is opposite D to provide supporting sides B, and ends B of greater width than sides D and ends D, D to raise table B above table D in the manner shown in Fig. 4. Cuts 1, 2, 3 and 4, form four tongues b, which are folded to positions at right angles to B, so that when ends B are bent down to position of support for B, the tongues will make edgecontact against B and reinforce the supporting sides B, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3. The bending lines are appropriately scored as shown by the dotted lines bounding sections B and D and separating sections A and C and tongues b, b, b, b from their adjacent integral sections. The blank is folded to the form shown in longitudinal section in Fig. 4 and in plan and cross-section in Figs. 1 and 2, respectively, the last two figures also showing the manner of assembly in box 8.

The blank for the second filler-member is illustrated in Fig. 5, the body E, of which,

.is substantially rectangular. This is scored as shown by the transverse dotted lines, for accurate and convenient bending to provide three trough-like recesses each to receive the body of an instrument to be packed in the box. These recesses are separated from each other, and also from the sides of the box, by relatively thick, hollow, partitions, by the hollow formation of which a degree of elasticity is afiordedto the thin paper-board sides, thereby relieving the contacting instruments from dangerous impact in handling or transportation. The width of each partition is determined by the distance between the scorings defining the sections F; their height by the scorings defining the supporting sections F; and distance apart by the width of sections F The sections F 2 rest upon the surface D, of the first filler-member. The two outside vertical supporting sections F F are made enough wider than the intermediate sup= V the direction shown by the arrow and dotted lines in Fig. 5, and overlap each other across the end of the finished second filler 'member, and .each section F has-a short tongue F which is bent at right angles away from adacent section F, and contacts 7 I, one of the folded tongues F 7 The floor spacers F are each continued to form a tongue F, and each of these is scored transversely at itsunction with F", by whlch it is bent up inside .of the tongues F and also for two more bends, one around the upper edges of tongues F ,,F and underlapping the corresponding section F The various steps are illustrated in Fig; 6 where the under-lapping is shown by dotted lines.

' The'ends of tops 'F extend to provide short tongues F which give the end an even finish when assembled in the box.

' The assembly together of the two fillermeinbers, and their assembly in box 8', is made permanent by gluingtogether the contacting surfaces, or as many as are necessary to hold the members in folded position, and also to retain them in the box.

It will be understoodthat the formof my 7 inventionhere shown and described is by 7 way of illustration only, and that various modifications will be made within the limits of the claims to adapt it to the'construa tion of the instruments to be contained, and what I claimas new and wish to secure by 7 Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with an instrument case, of a filler formed out of paper board scored and bent at the scores to: form a plu rality' of tables laterally of each other and 1 table" supports,. and integral reinforcing tongues folded against one or more of said table supports to increase the thickness and o strength of the latter.

2. The combination, with an instrument 7 r case, of a filler formed out of paper board scored and bent to form a plurality of tables laterally of each other at different heights from the bottom of the case, and table These sections F "have integraltitions, the blank from whichrthe filler is formed having a plurality of tongues some of which are bent at rightangles to the partitions and other, of which tongues are bent around said first tongues'and secured to the under side of the filler after the first tongues have been bent to final positions.

5. A filler formed out of'a paper board scored and bent to form a plurality ofhollow partitions, the sides of all of the partitions except the two outermost having integral tongues which are bent toward each other in pairs and the two outermost sides having longer tongues which are overlapped against said first bent tongues, and the integral spacing. members between the partitions each having a tongue'which is bent around and closely'contacted with the adjacent ones of said other tongues. V I

6. A filler formed out of a paper board scored and bent, to form a plurality of-hollow partitions, the sides of all of the partitionsexcept the two outermost having integral tongues which are bent -towardo each other in pairs and the two outermost sides having longertongues which are overlapped against said first bent tongues, and theintegral spacing members betweenthe partitions each having a tonguelwhich is bent around and closely contacted with the adj a'cen'tones of said other tongues and glued to the bo In witness whereof I have hereunto set my .tom of'the filler, and short tongues from hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, thisl'Fth day 

